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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: bcc vs cc/gcc (float)
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>   The only valid declarations of main() are:
>
>   int main(int, char **)
>   int main(void)
>
>I thought ANSI C allowed
>
>int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>
>I could be mistaken...

I thought that it allowed the implementation to allow that.
I was mistaken.

POSIX.1 specifies that exec shall use the 2-arg form.  I
think POSIX is an extension of ANSI here, so the 0-arg
form is still allowed, but POSIX doesn't seem to say this
explicitly.

Bruce